LGBT+ Labour

LGBT+ Labour is the socialist society officially representing the LGBTQ wing of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the organisation is to campaign within the Labour Party, and the wider Labour movement to promote the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people, and to encourage members of the LGBT community to support the Labour Party.

LGBT+ Labour is the successor to the Gay Labour Group. Sometimes referred to as the Gay Labour Caucus, it was set up in 1975 and one of the group's first banners is currently displayed at the People's History Museum in Manchester. In 1978, the name was changed, first to the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights, and later to the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

In 2002, the Campaign became a socialist society and thus affiliated to the Labour Party. As a socialist society, the organisation has the right to submit motions and send a delegate to the Labour Party Conference, participate in Party structures including electing three members of the National Policy Forum and a representative to the National Executive Committee (NEC). Since 2012, LGBT Labour has been entitled to directly elect a representative to the National Policy Forum in its own right. Members who are not full members of the Labour Party are able to vote in some party elections alongside other socialist societies members by registering as an affiliated supporter.

In 2006, the society also published Peter Purton's book Sodom, Gomorrah and the New Jerusalem: Labour and Lesbian and Gay Rights from Edward Carpenter to today which documented the lobbying, campaigning and alliance building which led to the legal reforms of 1997.

In July 2024, a fresh grassroots movement known as Pride in Labour was founded as an alternative, and criticised LGBT+ Labour for being "chronically silent" following the announcement from Health Secretary Wes Streeting who said the Labour Party (UK) would maintain the ban on puberty blockers being prescribed to children.

Membership is mostly made up of members of the Labour Party and trade unionists. Membership is also open to non-members of the Labour Party, as long as they are not members of another political party.

LGBT+ Labour is run by an elected national committee which is elected every year at its yearly general meeting. LGBT+ Labour also has a number of regional groups to carry out its work in those areas, which have their own smaller committees to run them, also democratically elected. LGBT Labour has no staff members and all committee members are volunteers.

The LGBT+ Labour AGM also agrees its policy positions as well as identifying the work programme for the National Committee.